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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

INRANK-A. PACKARD AND JOHN D. STRUBLE, OF SALINA, KANSAS.

SOAP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 394,289, dated December11, 1888. Application filed April 10, 1888. Serial No. 270,209.(Specimens) T0 aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that We, INRANK A. PACKARD and JOHN D. STRUBLE, of Salina,in the county of Saline and State of Kansas, have invented a new andImproxed Soap Compound, of which the following a full, clear, and exactdescription.

Our invention relates to a composition of matter adapted for use inconnection with soap, especially laundry-soap, and has for its object toprovide an article by the use of which all bleaching liquids or powdersand acids may be dispensed with, and which, when used for laundrypurposes, will effectually clean and whiten the most delicatefabricssuch as silk, satin, and fine laceswithout the slightest injurythereto.

The composition consists of the following ingredients, combined insubstantially the following proportions, viz: Equal parts ofaquaannnonia, spirits of camphor, spirits of niter, and ether.

The above articles readily out each other and are mixed until theythoroughly commingle.

iVhen soap of any description is in process of manufacture, a suitablequantity of the compound is incorporated, the amount being determined bythe experience of the operator and the proposed character of the soap.

For laundry-soap We usually employ eight ounces of the compound forey'ery two hundred and fifty pounds of soap.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

The herein-described composition of matter for laundry purposes,consisting of a saponaceous material, aqua-ammonia, spirits ofcanfiih'o'ij-fspiritsof niter, mental, in substantially the proportionsspecified.

INRANK A. PACKARD. JOHN D. STRUBLE. Vitnesses:

B. L. WILSON, J OHN L. BISHOP.

